In the triumphant twenties, Benjamin Rask and his wife Helen rule New York: he, a financial magnate who has amassed a fortune; she, the daughter of some eccentric aristocrats. But as the decade draws to a close, and his excesses reveal a dark side, suspicion begins to surround the Rask.
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That is the starting point of Obligaciones, a bestselling novel from 1937 that everyone in New York seems to have read and that tells a story that can, however, be told in a few other ways. Hernán Díaz composes in ‘Fortuna’ a masterful literary puzzle: a sum of voices, of confronting versions that complement, qualify and contradict each other, and, in doing so, place the reader before the frontiers and limits between reality and fiction , between the truth –perhaps impossible to find– and its manipulated version.
‘Fortuna’ explores the ins and outs of American capitalism, the power of money, the passions and betrayals that drive personal relationships and the ambition that ruins everything.
Here is a novel that, as it travels through the 20th century, catches the reader on the first page and does not let go until the last, keeping them in permanent tension thanks to the fascinating literary game that it proposes, full of surprises and unexpected twists.
Regarding the book, Publishers Weekly indicated that “Thoroughly documented and formally ambitious, it succeeds in everything it sets out to do.”
In the Los Angeles Times, Hillary Kelly wrote that it is “Absolutely brilliant… Immaculate writing.”
It is worth saying “A fascinating story of class, capitalism and greed. The result is a mesmerizing metafictional alchemy that is highly ambitious and even more accomplished,” according to Esquire’s Adrienne Westenfeld.
“Intricate, ingenious and with solid surprises… With echoes of Henry James, Edith Wharton and Thomas Mann… A stimulating and intelligent novel”, reviewed Michael Gorra, in the newspaper The New York Times.
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Coal: origin, attributes, extraction and current uses in Colombia
Author: Luis Jorge Mejía Umana
Seal: National University
The development of a book on coal, and its use is a complex task, since it implies approaching it as a product of nature that has variable characteristics, diverse properties and multiple uses, which has been the subject of a large number of studies and investigations. Thus, the fact that it is a fossil fuel leads us to recapitulate the environmental and geological conditions that formed it in the remote past, in such a way that we can take advantage of it in the present.
The text includes a chapter dedicated to the historical development of coal in Colombia, with the state of exploration, coal quality and coking.
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Atlas: The Pa Salt Story
Author: Lucinda Riley
Label: Plaza & Janes
1928, Paris. A boy is found moments before his death and taken in by a loving family. Sweet, precocious and full of talent, the boy blossoms in his new home and the family shows him a life he hadn’t thought possible. But he refuses to say a word about who he really is. As he grows older he’s almost forgetting the terror of his past or the promise he’s sworn to keep. But all over Europe evil is waking up and no one can feel completely safe. He knows that the time is coming when he will have to flee again.
with you in the ether
Autor: Olivie Blake
Stamp: Umbrella
A unique contemporary love story that explores the nature of love, what it means to not feel good, and how to deal with our own brokenness while still loving like we’re not broken. Two people meet by chance at the Art Institute. Before their unexpected meeting, he is a PhD student managing his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she’s a bipolar counterfeit artist who goes to court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, none of that will have changed. But this is not a story about endings.
author orchids
Author: Juan Carlos Santacruz
There are 114 photographs that comprise this work of photography by Juan Carlos Santacruz that in its free digital version presents photographs of his own species grown and cared for by himself for more than 15 years. A practice that he started as a hobby and has become a passion. “I want to show this set of signature Orchids, and have the opportunity to convey the emotion I felt growing them, seeing them grow, flourish and be part of my life. Each plant is a different world, they are sensitive to the environment, to light or to the temperature and they can flower for an hour, 24 hours or for 90 days. All that character is what I am going to share in my new book”, affirms the author.
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